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Autonomy

A termed coined by Alan Cruse in his approach to lexical semantics. Refers to the degree of conventionalization associated with a word-meaning that secures relative context-independence and thus identifies a distinct sense. Examples of word senses which are not fully autonomous include a sub-sense and a facet.

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